Hi!
We are using only EdgeMax Pro Series in our Network but we now reach a point where we wish to have more power for our routing equipment.
First topic: Currently there are very cheap SoCs on the market. When will Ubiquiti upgrade to a much better CPU? What's about a ARM Cortex-A53 based chip? Octa-Core 2,3 GHz will be a good choise for internal processes as Routing-Calculation and other things.
Also the prices for DRAM are as low as never before. So why not adding 4GB/8GB of RAM and 64GB/128GB of ROM / USB-Drive / SSD?
The most mobilephones from china have more power than ER-Pro.
Currently we run 4x BGP Full-Feeds, 24x BGP Peers (from 1 to 800 Prefixes) and fast growing (IXP-Connections) and we are seeing BGP-Process is eating up all available cpu performance.
If you will change your SoC to a octacore-version please also try to get your Network-Interfaces assigned to seperate CPUs (IRQ Throttling), to get max performance. Currently we are seeing that eth4 (first interface on driver registration) is staticly bound to CPU0, so if you maxout IRQs of CPU0 you will get packetdrop at 50% of CPU-Usage. Or your driver should register RX/TX Streams per Interface to all available CPUs (ethX-rx-cpuY, ethX-tx-cpuY...).
Third topic: Networks grows fast. Our current Backbone-Network is using 10G Equipment with Link-Aggregation up to 40G but we are not able to get 10G ore more to our ER-Pro. We also dreaming of an ER-Pro with at least two 10G Ports and an ASIC that is able to handle that performance on linerate of 64byte/s.
IMHO: We like UBNT Devices and we will spend more money on good hardware. Compared to Mikrotik CCR Series you have mutch room to get up to their pricing, so why not make hardware at same price point but with performance like a rocket with innovative solutions (do routing and other stuff in ASIC and not in CPU as Mikrotik does - just what EdgeMAX stands for).
